Flight 111 Plummets Into The Open Ocean | Mayday Compilation | Wonder 

Those poor people no one deserves to die like that

I don’t know if anyone mentioned this in the comments, but the place where the crash happens is iconic for Canadians, and long before the crash happened. The lighthouse in Peggy’s Cove is often included in montages of Canada. For us, this tragedy was made all the more surreal because it happened in a place we all “knew”. Such a sad story. May the dead rest in peace and may their families continue to receive comfort.

How is smoke in the cockpit not an immediate Mayday call, they were way too casual with it.

The plane plummeting to the ocean is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen and knowing that really happened is hard to grasp.

In an emergency, you don't need a checklist especially when you have smoke in the plane. Just land as fast as you can, this is horrible.

Can’t imagine how helpless and distraught those passengers must have felt. Plummeting into ocean at that high speed. 🥺🙏🏽🥺

"I'm in a good place but, but for a bad reason " Those words are deep 😢

The purpose of a checklist is to do all the right things as quickly as possible even when facing novel (to you) situations. It baffles me that they have a crazy long checklist in situations where every second counts.

My grandpa was on that flight Per Spanne he was an amazing guy yet I never met him. I love him ❤️

Man it sucks how the copilot wanted to just land but the captain was insistent on the fuel dump... sometimes its better to go with your gut instead of doing everything by the book.

May all the lost souls rest in peace . . . This is one of "Wonder's" best video series - informative and hard-hitting, so thank you.

Not sure if it's meant to come across this way, but man does the pilot seem incompetent. Failure to recognise the serious issue they were in and decides to stay in the air to dump fuel in a holding pattern? Insane.

They should have declared an emergency a long time before they did. Maintaining a Pan Pan Pan status with a smoke filled flight deck?

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This episode versus any of the others that I've seen, shows a level of investigation that is so high it's so amazing these people the investigators around the world they have one of the most tuff and no no they have the toughest and most critical job in the world as far as I'm concerned thank you to all of these people that daily go without ever hearing any praise thank you.

So involved it really makes u feel for the victims

Accident like these changing many criterias for airline industry.

Best plane series

May all the lost souls rest in peace.

About a year after this incident my parents were on a cross Canada flight. There was a strong smell of smoke in the passenger cabin about an hour after takeoff. The crew made an announcement they were diverting and landing immediately. Within 15 minutes the plane landed safely in Calgary. I'm sure the Swissair fire was fresh on the minds of the pilots and ATC.

The $2 hr. maintenance person in Peru got jailed because of systems and procedures that were wrong to begin with. They should have had a bright orange cover with a flag hanging down.

I used to be an Aviation Electrician (AE) in the U.S. Navy, and when I first heard there was smoke in the cockpit of the Airplane, I immediately knew that was a serious emergency. I knew that when the fire starts to burn those electric wires, they will lose all the flight instruments, autopilot system, as well as the controls of the plane. The pilots should had called for mayday immediately after they noticed all that smoke. They wasted too much time trying to do other things than landing the plane as soon as possible. Those extra minutes could have saved the lives of those 229 souls. It was a terrible loss, and my heart goes out to all their families.

Does anyone notice that in all of these crashes the pilots are always the best trained, most senior or the plane is the most modern ? I’m just saying

I dunno but it seemed like a lot of messing round & delay getting to the ground, dumping fuel etc. In my view the SECOND puff of smoke should have instigated a beeline to the nearest landing site, preferably a runway!

I heard the pilot's finally transmission of this flight, it was heartbreaking 😢

This incident was a reall illustration of trepidation and fretfulness

Several things I don’t understand your entire cockpit is to the point you need your oxygen mask and you don’t declare a emergency nor do you start early wanting to land immediately and start preparing to in that 30 min window you were given than you fly out towards the ocean already having this problem to dump fuel. You should have just landed. I’m sorry but this was a instructor and a experienced pilot. I’m not saying he couldn’t fly well but common sense and logically thinking in a emergency situation there was no logic on the captains part. They still might have made it but he had 30 mins to arrive at the airport 20 mins later he’s over the ocean dumping fuel. No the air controller did everything right he himself was concerned the pilot was to high and by his wording more less why wasn’t he descending to be able to land. Bless all those souls and there family’s so sad.

The “flying blind” episode is really terrifying, I don’t know about you, but if everything fails, I would resort to using a glass of water to get an idea of what my planes attitude was and use a tube of mercury to get an idea of what my altitude would be, is it primitive? Yes. Will it work when nothing else works? Yes.

I watch these to remind myself why I don’t fly planes go down and I don’t plan to be on one when it does 😭terrible man I couldn’t even imagine

A simple air pressure alarm could help prevent this accident, e.g., air pressure induced into 'pito' system would set off alarm in cockpit if pressure was blocked from escaping before take off and be part the checklist.

I am sickened by the stupidity and foolhardiness of these two pilots. They owed the victims an apology even in their own demise. Pilots' error causing major catastrophe is totally unacceptable! They took things too lightly when dumping fuel should be the start of the process!

They should make pitot covers that can remove themselves. Like paper covers that can fly off at high speeds, or automatic covers that can be controlled by the cockpit.

Years in development. Months and weeks on the assembly line. Obliterated to nothing in mere seconds.

The pilot really try his best 😢

I'm not an airplane pilot, I'm a fishing boat captain out of San Diego. But even halfway through this event, I was already calling this captain a moron. Here's why. First, "Where there's smoke, there's fire," and when you're in an enclosed vessel, be it airborne or waterborne, any sign of smoke is considered an EMERGENCY SITUATION. We have a saying on ships, and it goes like this: "A FIRE AT SEA CAN RUIN YOUR ENTIRE DAY." We take that statement seriously. This so-called "professional" captain should have put this airplane on the ground ASAP, but instead he flew around like a student pilot enjoying the view. This was an accident just waiting to happen, but could have so easily been avoided. He had plenty of time to land before things went critical.

Gone to jail at $2 dollars an hour. He was better-off being a bar-tender

Oh, I remember this one, vividly.

For all the experts saying that he should have continued directly towards the airport. It didn't matter since they would have crashed before reaching the airport anyway.

Ugh 😩 I was on TWA on a redirect landing due to one engine failure, pilot announced they were dropping fuel.. SCARY!!

My dad worked cleanup in navy and said in the first 24 hours they ran out of body bags because they had to bag each individual part and every body was divided, sad really

Flight to Geneva, Swiss Air 111.

What every potential passenger on any airline needs to understand is that the industry's PRIMARY consideration is cost effectiveness.

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4:19 Funny how this seems to pop up everywhere....

3:47 --12 cabin crew for 215 passengers? Amazing! What do we have these days? 2 cabin crew with attitudes for 215 passengers... I remember enjoying flying back in the 60s/70s/80s. Now you have to be young and healthy to "barely" survive a plane trip.

Any aircraft with engines on idle for so long will be decending. amazing these guys didn't realize that.

Haven't you uploaded this already a few years ago?

We used to have six or more people in a single cockpit all pulling their weight and doing work; now it's all left to two to three people swamped with work and with a load of hardly functioning error-prone computers in the hope of the aircraft reaching the next airport without death.

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Still not enough compensation for such horrific deaths.

And why don't they make the tape bright orange bright yellow if they have to cover the tubes for any reasons the tape should be visible from space

Wow. 600 centigrade is 1100!

When you have fire on a plane, you put it down immediately. I can’t believe the captain messed around like this. He could have been safely on the ground. So terribly terribly sad. The air traffic controller did his job, the captain blew it.

How about an emergency maintenance crew onboard to deal with these distractions🧐

Why they didn’t call some passengers to help look for any fire even tried to quench it

To say I really like looking at plane crashes but all my classmates said :-How are you not terrified after all that ? Me saying : Oh I prepare myself for this just in case cuz yeah I will be a pilot . Other classmate said that she wants to be a pilot too but everyone said : I think she(me) will be a pilot maybe you won’t be you don’t know anything about planes ✈️ but she ( me ) know better than you I saw with a smile on my face that I knew my classmates will stand beside me of becoming a pilot ❤

It’s quite amazing how many “” mysteries there are considering the fact that these supposedly trained in individuals and the aircraft itself are gone through with a fine tooth comb, and yet these amazing amount of mysteries 😊

You have 902 plane crashing videos and in every video you say it was the worst crash ever known.

A single piece of tape. That small oversight of not removing a strip of tape brought the whole plane down, and cost the lives of everyone on board.

Those poor people, how horrifying

Bill ATC did all he could and did it correctly

If such a Situation like here where they dump the fuel and the fire makes them may move out of their Pilotseat or even the cockpit, will then all the fuel completely dumped, if it won't switched off manually?? Thank you

Im flying with 300 people on board and smell smoke in the cockpit. "Just shut the vent and ignore it"

I smell dire incompetence and am using the kindest words. Forgetfulness, confusion ,carelessness, utter disregard of a fire. What do they think was burning steak ?

HB-IWF / SR-111 Disaster - then the 9/11 terror event with very limited Operation and the whole following SR grounding plus bankrupsy, was at the end too much of bad decisions and events, that Swissair had sadly no chance in survive. Only SRT the former swissair Maintenance survived in a very rough envirement. God bless all the victims and their relatives. ❤

stay safe at home

That lawyer at the end who sued Boeing for what they had nothing to do with makes my skin crawl

26:16 is ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING. They were THE LAST HOPE for all those ppl on board at that moment. 😢

For lost of height and speed I would suggest the app gaia to be use by pilots at least they will have indication of their height and speed. I have tried many times when I am flying and it does not need data

Is that one air traffic controller Joey Jeremiah? 😄 I can't imagine being a passenger on these planes and watching the ocean getting closer and closer, knowing you're gonna crash into the ocean, facing imminent death. How horrific!

In the back of my mind, knowing that the circulating fan towards the rear was pulling the fire towards the back, would it have changed the outcome if the cabin bus remained on?

This just one of the many reasons i will not fly even though I’ve heard it said many times that flying is safer than driving well there’s practically danger in anything and in things we do as we go about our lives nowadays I still prefer taking my chances driving rather then taking a risk at flying I didn’t know anyone on this flight and unfortunately happened many years ago my prayers and condolences to the families and friends for their sudden unexpected loss of a dear loved one (s) my heart goes out to them all and to all the people who perished rest in eternal peace in paradise

I worked on pitot-static systems for 23 years in the Air Force. If we taped anything we had to put a RED X entry in the forms.

He should have landed when he had the chance! And not tried to dump the fuel 🤦🏾‍♀️🙁

If the pilots had turned off the entertainment system and the a/c they've might've survived.

ANOTHER golden oldie.

I lived near moncton

these guys took ttoo long to get down

They ended up coming down an awful long way from the airport, I never knew they were trying to land at our airport, the crash site is over an hour by car from the airport

Why is the sound mix of the actual episode in mono...??? 🙃

That is so tough to watch. So very sad. 46:22

Rest in peace

Way it hit the water, angle/speed.. Cockpit must’ve been completely out… but the Passengers were likely all awake until the water ! Crazy… Sad…

My Dad was a check airman on the 777 for United for a long time.. retired now. He used to fly to Delhi, Tel-Aviv, Shanghai, Paris, all over.. He used to say, "If I ever I had an on-board fire while at cruise over the ocean, I'd be making a B-line for the closest piece of land immediately. Also used to joke and say, "When going over the north pole, if there was an engine fire or a dual engine failure, there'd be very I can do".. would be crash landing on Santa's front lawn."

😱😳😱 OMG!!?😢🤧 😢🤧 This is horrible!🤧😢🤧lord have mercy 😢 this is horrible!!🤧😢

It is so incompetent of these airlines to not train their maintenence workers on things they should and shouldn't do. They should know the consequences and even what a crash would look like due to that. Sometimes, seeing the destruction and dead bodies covered up, is the only thing that will sink in and never be forgotten again!

Damn😢

It took a crash and four year investigation to determine that flammable materials do not belong on airplanes. IMO the captain should have declared Mayday as soon as they smelled something burning.

My friend is afraid to fly. She can't understand why i watch these things. "Dont they scare you?" It's not the crash that i watch these for. It's the investigation afterwards.

57:27 They should ask for jet escort.

⁠A major problem: They said the plane hit the water with the force of 350 Gs (46:15). No wonder it broke into pieces!

My parents were involved in a plane airbus that went down over the Portuguese islands and I believe 2000, all because they put the wrong part into the engine,lucky for them they had an amazing flight crew flying that plane they made it onto one of the islands,all I have to say is double check everything on an aircraft before it takes off,I know I worked for Boeing for 27 years!!! CHECK YOUR STUFF!!!!!

Building structures, like shopping centers, hospitals... has a long red pipes with smoke sensors that striked by smoke & immediately spray water , that system can't be installed along the aeroplane loom?

Its far better to land in an open ocean than a closed one.

They should of stopped when they first smelled the smoke not waited until it came back. Better safe than sorry as they say

Beats hitting a mountain

4.05 Stephanie Shaw wasn't suppose to be on that flight.Mark Rosset a tennis player cancelled his ticket so she took his seat

Jesus they do not give up on trying to figure a crash out eh

They should’ve landed at nearest airport

Pilots should be tested/checked for any drugs/narcotic meds/alcohol right before each flight. I dated a pilot and many are alcoholics due to such a stressful job.